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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Gestumbl Heiðr 18VIII (Heiðr 65)

[1] rýgjar ‘women’: Plays with alternate meanings of the word: ‘women’ and ‘giantesses’ (LP: rýgr). Together with the reginfjalli ‘mighty mountain’ of l. 2, this creates two layers of imagery: both of angelica growing wild and of giantesses in their traditional dwelling-place.

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